Rancho La Goleta was a
Mexican land grant in present-day
Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor
Pío Pico
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to
Daniel A. Hill. The grant extended along the Pacific coast from today’s Fairview Avenue in present-day
Goleta, east to
Hope Ranch. The grant was adjacent to
Rancho Dos Pueblos granted to his son-in-law
Nicolas A. Den
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in 1842.
History
The one square league grant was made to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1846.
With the
cession of California to the United States following the
Mexican-American War
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, the 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). It was signed on 2 February 1848 in the town of Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City, Guadalupe Hidalgo.
After the defeat of its army and the fall of the cap ...
provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Goleta was filed with the
Public Land Commission
The California Land Act of 1851 (), enacted following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the admission of California as a state in 1850, established the California State Lands Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican l ...
in 1852, and the grant was
patented
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to Daniel Antonio Hill in 1865.
The
California Gold Rush
The California gold rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the U ...
began in 1848, making Hill wealthy from the sale of beef to miners in the gold fields. Daniel Hill first sold of Rancho La Goleta to his son-in-law, T. Wallace More, in 1856, and an additional in 1864. The deaths of Den in 1862 and Hill in 1865, and the droughts of 1863 and 1864, led to the first subdivisions of the rancho.
Daniel A. Hill
Daniel A. Hill (1797–1865), of
Billerica, Massachusetts, came to California from
Hawaii
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in 1823, and settled in
Santa Barbara, and married Rafaela Sabina Luisa Ortega (1809–1879) in 1826. She was the granddaughter of
José Francisco Ortega, grantee of
Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio. Hill was a man of varied accomplishments—carpenter, stonemason, soap-maker, and farmer. He engaged in merchandising, and also acted as a superintendent for the padres in some of their farming and building operations. He built several houses, including the 1825
Hill-Carrillo Adobe, now listed the
National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Barbara County, California. He was the grantee of Rancho La Goleta, where he died in 1865. His daughter Rosa A. Hill married Nicholas A. Den; daughter Josefa G. Hill married
Alexander Smith Taylor; daughter Susana Hill married T. Wallace More; and daughter Maria Antonia married H. O'Neill; and his son Ramon J. Hill was a state senator.
[Mason, Jesse D., 1961, Reproduction of Thompson and West's, ''History of Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties California'', Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, Pages 45-47]
See also
*
Ranchos of California
In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Spanish and History of Mexico, Mexican governments from 1775 to 1846. The Spanish concessions of l ...
*
List of Ranchos of California
References
External links
Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map
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